For the second year in a row, the Platte River is essentially dry going into fall in central Nebraska. Drive across the river near Grand Island, and you'll see a few small channels of water snaking ...

ALEXANDRA: AND FROM PLATTE COUNTY, LAW ENFORCEMENT RECOVERS THE BODY OF A TEENAGER WHO DROWNED IN THE PLATTE RIVER. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THE 17-YEAR-OLD WAS FISHING TUESDAY, WHERE THE CANAL DUMPS ...

Stunning photos of the Platte River mostly dry near Columbus, Nebraska A car heads south on the U.S. 81 bridge over a mostly dry Platte River south of Columbus on Thursday. Flows at Duncan, near ...

This is a conflict between the states of Nebraska and Colorado. But it’s really about water use on the Front Range. … We just ...

Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, at center, and Gov. Jim Pillen, at right, announce a lawsuit against Colorado before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to assert Nebraska's water rights to the ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) - Nebraska lawmakers recently sent a bill to their governor's desk approving construction of a canal that will pull water from the South Platte River in Colorado, even as ...

OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska is suing Colorado over the amount of water it draws from the South Platte River, the latest in a long history of water rights disputes between the states that have been left ...